Seven novel bismuth(III)-halide phases, Bi2Cl6(terpy)2·0.5(H2O) (1), Bi2Cl4(terpy)2(k2-TC)2(2) (TC = 2-thiophene monocarboxylate), BiCl(terpy)(k2-TC)2 (3A-Cl), BiBr(terpy)(k2-TC)2 (3A-Br), (3B-Cl), [BiCl(terpy)(k2-TC)2][Bi(terpy)(k2-TC)3]·0.55(TCA) (4), [BiBr3(terpy)(MeOH)] (5), and [BiBr2(terpy)(k2-TC)][BiBr1.16(terpy)(k2-TC)1.84] (6), were prepared under mild synthetic conditions from methano...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the level of Vitamin K2 (Vit K2) in osteoporotic patients and individuals with normal bone density as controls. MATERIALS & METHODS This case-control study was done in Outpatient Department of Rheumatology at Qazvin Boo-ali Sina Hospital in 2013. Participants were 50 patients with osteoporotic densitometry measured by DEXA (T score? -2.5) who wer...

Vitamin K2 is a critical nutrient required for blood coagulation. It also plays a key role in bone homeostasis and is a clinically effective therapeutic agent for osteoporosis. We previously demonstrated that vitamin K2 is a transcriptional regulator of bone marker genes in osteoblastic cells and that it may potentiate bone formation by activating the steroid and xenobiotic receptor, SXR. To ex...

We present a quantum Monte Carlo study of a hard-core boson model with ring-only exchanges on a square lattice, where a K1 term acts on 1×1 plaquettes and a K2 term acts on 1×2 and 2×1 plaquettes. At half-filling, the phase diagram reveals charge density wave for small K2, valence bond solid for intermediate K2, and possibly for large K2 the novel exciton Bose liquid (EBL) phase first proposed ...

In this paper, we rigorously prove the existence and stability of K-peaked asymmetric patterns for the Gierer-Meinhardt system in a two dimensional domain which are far from spatial homogeneity. We show that given any positive integers k1, k2 ≥ 1 with k1 + k2 = K, there are asymmetric patterns with k1 large peaks and k2 small peaks. Most of these asymmetric patterns are shown to be unstable. Ho...

Generalizing the notion of a Koszul algebra, a graded kalgebra A is K2 if its Yoneda algebra ExtA(k, k) is generated as an algebra in cohomology degrees 1 and 2. We prove a strong theorem about K2 factor algebras of Koszul algebras and use that theorem to show the Stanley-Reisner face ring of a simplicial complex ∆ is K2 whenever the Alexander dual simplicial complex ∆∗ is (sequentially) Cohen-...

Scharlemann and Schultens have shown that for any pair of knots K1 and K2 , w(K1#K2) ≥ max{w(K1), w(K2)} . Scharlemann and Thompson have given a scheme for possible examples where equality holds. Using results of Scharlemann–Schultens, Rieck–Sedgwick and Thompson, it is shown that for K = # i=1 Ki a connected sum of mp-small knots and K ′ any non-trivial knot, w(K#K ) > w(K). AMS Classification...